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Dell Executive Teaches Innovation
Tampa, FL (January 11, 2013) — Dell Chief Innovation Officer Jim Stikeleather requires that everyone on his innovation team read a science fiction book every year.
"Science fiction does a good job of anticipating the future," he said. "People laugh at me, but then I say, 'How many of you have a StarTrek communicator on your belt?' You all do."
Smartphones, Stikeleather said, not only broadcast location like a communicator -- a smartphone is like having the entire communications system of the Starship Enterprise in the palm of your hand.
Stikeleather, who holds an MBA from USF, spoke to an audience of MBA students January 10 about the nature of innovation, its function in the economy, and how to be more innovative as an individual. His presentation was the first in a new MBA speaker series designed to keep students tapped in to the wider, global business community.
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